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Invasive mussel confirmed in Utahs Electric Lake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Microsoft lets Zune music subscribers keep tunes
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Astronauts end spacewalk to repair gummed-up joint
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie get preliminary divorce decree
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Madonna, Ritchie granted preliminary divorce
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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UN expects new peacekeepers in Congo in weeks
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Warsaw marks borders of former ghetto
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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Afghanistan markets its brand of pomegranates
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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China says 19,000 students died in May earthquake
Southern Ledger - November 21, 2008
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US News Archive for February 2005:
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Intelligence chief nominated
President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as his choice for the newly created post of director of national intelligence. Negroponte has been the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq since June...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Iraqi PM hopeful urges unity
The top contender for Iraq's transitional prime minister post told CNN on Thursday he would try to bring the alienated Sunni Arab minority into the country's nascent political culture. Ibrahim al-Jaafari said "security, services and the economy" are the main arenas needing attention. He was speaking after certified election results gave a Shiite-led coalition 140 seats in the 275-seat transitional National Assembly...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Iraqi contender urges unity
The top contender for Iraq's transitional prime minister post told CNN on Thursday he would try to bring the alienated Sunni Arab minority into the country's nascent political culture...
CNN - February 17, 2005
House Joins Senate in Backing Limits on Class-Action Lawsuits
In a legislative win for the president, the House passed a bill that would sharply limit the ability to file sweeping, multistate lawsuits against companies...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
A Brazen Visionary With a Surreal Self
The Philadelphia Museum of Art's retrospective of the megalomaniacal Surrealist painter is a visual and psychic marathon...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Times Company to Buy About.com for $410 Million
The New York Times Company announced this afternoon that it had agreed to acquire the online consumer information provider About Inc...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Worldcom director ends evidence
The former chief financial officer at US telecoms firm WorldCom completes his evidence at the trial of ex-boss Bernie Ebbers...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Sound pioneer Dolby shares soar
Sound industry pioneer Dolby Laboratories sees its shares leap more than 40% on their first day of trading...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
DNA locates Mexico 'stolen child'
A DNA test shows that a man living in Washington was abducted by Mexican police during the "dirty war"...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Cuban dissidents push for change
High-profile dissident Oswaldo Paya launches an international committee to draft a plan for democratic reform...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Shiites win majority in assembly
The Shiite-dominated United Iraqi Alliance will field more than half of lawmakers on the 275-member transitional Iraq National Assembly, according to the final, certified results announced Thursday. The UIA won 140 seats, Kurds, 75 seats; and interim PM Ayad Allawi's coalition, 40...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Bush names intelligence chief
President Bush on Thursday named John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, as his choice for the newly created post of director of national intelligence. Negroponte has been the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq since June. He was the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 2001 to 2004...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Negroponte nominated as intelligence chief
President Bush today nominated John Negroponte, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, for the newly created post of director of national intelligence. "John will make sure those whose duty it is to defend America have the information we need to make the right decisions, " Bush said. The director will oversee and manage the U.S. intelligence community...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Top spy choice
President Bush today nominated John Negroponte for the newly created post of director of national intelligence. A career diplomat, Negroponte has been U.S. ambassador to Iraq since June...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Bush Picks Envoy to Iraq to Be New Overseer of Spy Agencies
John D. Negroponte will head 15 intelligence agencies in the post, which was recommended by the 9/11 Commission...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Starbucks Will Venture Into Coffee Liqueur
The Starbucks Corporation's latest attempt to create a beverage that is not just for breakfast starts on Thursday with the introduction of an alcoholic coffee drink...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Latin America sees strong growth
Venezuela, Argentina and Mexico post better-than-expected economic growth for 2004...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
LAPD stiffens gunfire policy
Ten days after an officer shot to death Devin Brown, a 13-year-old who backed a stolen vehicle into a police car, the Los Angeles Police Commission on Wednesday approved limits on when officers can shoot at moving vehicles...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Iraqis to get election results
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq today will announce final, certified results of the country's historic January 30 elections, along with the allocation of seats to the 275-member National Assembly. Meanwhile, Iraq's borders will be closed for five days, starting today. The closure coincides with Ashura, a major Shiite Muslim religious holiday...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Iraqis to get election results
The Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq are preparing to announce final, certified results of the country's historic January 30 elections, along with the allocation of seats to the 275-member National Assembly...
CNN - February 17, 2005
As Girls 'Vanish,' Chinese City Battles Tide of Abortions
Guiyang, China, has enacted a pioneering ban on abortions after the 14th week of pregnancy to try and address the gap between male and female childbirths...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
US seeks new $280bn smoker ruling
US prosecutors will try to overturn a court ruling that threw out its claim for $280bn in damages from the nation's major tobacco firms...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Sound pioneer Dolby in share sale
Dolby Laboratories, the UK-founded pioneer of stereo sound, raises $495m in a stock market listing...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Argentina fires air police chief
The Argentine government has fired the country's national airport police chief over a drug-trafficking scandal...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Inca graffiti reopens border row
Chile complains to Peru over the detention of two men held for spray-painting Inca sites...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Peru ex-spy chief 'to sue Garzon'
The former Peruvian spy chief, Vladimiro Montesinos, is planning to sue Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Rumsfeld doubts Iraq intelligence
The US defence secretary doubts the Iraqi insurgency is as large as his intelligence estimates claim...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
CIA chief lays out assessment of North Korea
North Korea's nuclear weapons arsenal has grown since the country was labeled part of an "axis of evil" by President Bush three years ago, CIA Director Porter Goss said Wednesday. He told the Senate Select Intelligence Committee that North Korea is also looking for new customers for its ballistic-missile technology, now that "traditional customers" such as Libya are no longer in the market...
CNN - February 17, 2005
Goss warns of terror threat
CIA Director Porter Goss warned Wednesday that the threat of terrorist groups hitting the United States is still likely and that eventually the nation could face attacks with chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons...
CNN - February 17, 2005
N.H.L. Cancels the Rest of Its Season as Labor Talks Fall Apart
The N.H.L. became the first major pro sports league in North America to lose an entire season to a labor dispute...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Cops' Favorite Target Thug, but Just Who Was the Guy?
A lore has grown up around the man in paper targets at police firing ranges, giving birth to multiple theories on who he is...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Philadelphia Hopes to Lead the Charge to Wireless Future
A Philadelphia model, if successful, could spark a movement to make broadband access affordable in every municipality...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Indonesia's President Vows to Make Changes to Bring in Foreign Investment
In his first state visit to Singapore, the president of Indonesia gave business leaders a glimpse of the more dynamic economy he wants his nation to be...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Conservatives and Rivals Press a Struggling PBS
PBS is suffering from an identity crisis, and it goes deeper than the announcement by Pat Mitchell that she would step down as the network's president...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Federal Panel Consolidates Vioxx Suits
Hundreds of lawsuits filed against Merck, blaming its painkiller Vioxx for deaths and injuries, will be consolidated in a federal court in New Orleans...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
NASD Says Fund Family Paid Improper Fees
NASD has accused an affiliate of American Funds of directing $100 million in trading commissions to the brokerage firms that were top sellers of its funds...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Greenspan Backs Idea of Accounts for Retirement
But the Fed chairman expressed unease that the change could lead to trillions of dollars in additional government borrowing...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
A Folksy Lawyer With a High-Powered Client
Defending Bernard Ebbers, the former chief of WorldCom who is accused of conspiracy, may be Reid Weingarten's biggest challenge ever...
New York Times - February 17, 2005
Body found in Paraguay kidnap
The parents of the missing daughter of a former president of Paraguay go to a house where a body has been found...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
Rival mass rallies grip Ecuador
Tens of thousands of Ecuadorians take part in marches for and against the government in the capital, Quito...
BBC News - February 17, 2005
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